Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

When you know there's no condemnation, then I start to say, even these bad things,

they are given to me by God ultimately for his good to be swallowed up in eternity.

And I can have peace with them because I know that I am in and under the gracious provision of God.

And when you believe that, you will go from anger and bewilderment over the provision of God. And when you believe that,

you will go from anger and bewilderment

over the ways of God to peace and rest

in the promises of God.

Hey, welcome back for another week of solid biblical teaching here on Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. If you recall, last time on the

program, Pastor J.D. covered the first two signs that you might be in a contract relationship

with God. And in today's teaching,

he's going to present three more in order to help us see that we must get rid of our contract

mentality and embrace the goodness and grace of God. Now, if you missed the beginning of this sermon from

last week, I wanted to remind you that you can always hear previous broadcasts at our website,

jd.gere.com. But right now, let's return to our teaching titled 11th hour faith. We are in the

book of Matthew chapter 20. Once again, here's Pastor J.D. I was thinking this week,

in my own quiet time, there were two verses that God was just,

it just sort of leapt off the page to me. Can I see this real quick? I don't mean to take a cheap shot.

If you don't read the Bible every day, I don't know how you survive. Because these promises

become life to me. They become the things that diffuse jealousy and resentment and anger and keep me away from

temptation. And if you just go week by week and I'm the only kind of Bible that I'm giving you,

there's no wonder that you're withering and dying spiritually. I need the word of God every single

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